A review by anxiousnachos
The Lucky List by Rachael Lippincott

lighthearted

3.0

This was a sweet and cute YA contemporary and I really appreciated the story of a girl struggling to come out of the closet in a small, country town (that’s my life!) but I also feel this book exemplified everything about why I feel I’ve been growing out of YA contemporary. All of the themes and emotional depth felt very surface level, nothing was explored in any real depth. And there were moments I felt like a real psychopath for not feeling distraught over the mother plot - not sure if this is the book’s fault or mine! This generally felt young and unchallenging - which is totally fine, this is a YA and it is not written for me, but having come back to this genre with this book after a break because I’d started getting hints of these feelings, it’s safe to say that I have pretty conclusively outgrown this genre? 

Content warnings: death of parent (past), grief, cheating
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